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Lemoine Blocks Camera as Pagano Questions Francos, Disrupting Deputies Session

The clash highlighted a deepening split in libertarian ranks during scrutiny of alleged kickbacks tied to the disability agency ANDIS.

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Overview

  • During Chief of Cabinet Guillermo Francos’s management report, Lilia Lemoine stood in front of the broadcast camera and filmed Marcela Pagano as the Coherencia deputy pressed questions about ANDIS.
  • Chamber president Martín Menem demanded order and told Lemoine to sit, as calls for a cuarto intermedio briefly stalled the proceedings before the session continued.
  • Pagano said she felt threatened, asked for security, and traded shouts with Lemoine while both recorded video, with other lawmakers also filming for later posting.
  • Francos defended the honorability of officials José Luis Vila and Víctor Hugo Armelino referenced in Pagano’s inquiries and said he was willing to wait while the dispute was resolved.
  • The episode adds to the rupture between former allies in La Libertad Avanza, with Pagano now in the Coherencia bloc after earlier confrontations and recent realignments linked to the ANDIS scandal.